Maintenance Technician
Biosearch Life, a Kerry Company
Date: 1 day ago
City: Evansville, IN
Contract type: Full time
Requisition ID: 60310Position Type: (US)Full Time
Workplace Arrangement
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
Where You'll Work
Our Evansville, IN, location is part of our Coatings division, and creates various breading, batter, and coating blends for Kerry brands and customers. We feel good about our products that make our food taste better. Our employees care about their community, their team and the results we create every day. If you’re looking for a manufacturing facility where you can build a career and have fun while you do it, we might be the team for you! We are part of the Evansville Local Labor Union 561, and we are located at 1515 Park Street, Evansville, IN.
Compensation Data
The starting wage for this role is $30.10 per hour. This position may also be eligible for a shift differential and/or overtime. In addition to your pay, Kerry offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and retirement contribution (all benefits and incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
3rd Shift 10 pm to 6:30 am .35 Shift differential per hour.
What You'll Do
Education: 2-year degree in Industrial technology, advanced manufacturing preferred,
Experience: 3+ years’ experience required. Prior experience in a food manufacturing facility preferred. Strong electrical troubleshooting and controls experience desired or ability to acquire within a reasonable time frame.
Skills: Mechanical repair, general welding, electrical troubleshooting, PLC troubleshooting, ability to use hand tools, hand-held power tools, and basic computer skills.
Must have the ability to work alone and in close cooperation with production personnel. Capable of working through complex problems alone or with others to provide logical solutions.
Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Additional information can be found at: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov).
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
Recruiter
Posting Type: DNI
Workplace Arrangement
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
Where You'll Work
Our Evansville, IN, location is part of our Coatings division, and creates various breading, batter, and coating blends for Kerry brands and customers. We feel good about our products that make our food taste better. Our employees care about their community, their team and the results we create every day. If you’re looking for a manufacturing facility where you can build a career and have fun while you do it, we might be the team for you! We are part of the Evansville Local Labor Union 561, and we are located at 1515 Park Street, Evansville, IN.
Compensation Data
The starting wage for this role is $30.10 per hour. This position may also be eligible for a shift differential and/or overtime. In addition to your pay, Kerry offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and retirement contribution (all benefits and incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
3rd Shift 10 pm to 6:30 am .35 Shift differential per hour.
What You'll Do
- Essential Functions:
- In the absence of the Maintenance group lead, ensure critical activities of the group lead to keep the maintenance department working properly.
- Assists the group lead in reviewing the current day’s schedule status of manpower availability daily,and facilitates the execution to plan.
- Must be able to lead and help train fellow team members within the department.
- Assists the Planner/Scheduler and Maintenance Engineer by recommending equipment and/or procedures to be included in preventative maintenance programs
- Recommends and helps find permanent solutions to the issues that maintenance department faces in its day to day functioning
- Keeps the maintenance staff properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of their knowledge or authority
- Works with various hand tools, power tools, welders and cutting equipment to repair and maintain plant machinery and equipment such as mixers, conveyors, compressors, and pumps
- Repairs or replaces control devises such as switches, photo eyes, proximity sensors, pushbuttons, contactors, motor starters, etc. as needed
- Performs work order repairs, inspections and adjustments
- Ensures fellow employees, contractors and visitors are following all applicable quality and food safety procedures and policies
- Able to set up and operate welders, drill press, grinder, hand tools and other metal working equipment
- Fabricates and modifies new and existing equipment.
- Ability to troubleshoot to the I/O of controls.
- Ability to connect to PLC and access program so that 3rd party may inspect/troubleshoot program.
- Troubleshoots and repair electrical equipment; work with low voltage DC and 120, 240 and 480 volt AC power based on Electrician guidelines.
Education: 2-year degree in Industrial technology, advanced manufacturing preferred,
Experience: 3+ years’ experience required. Prior experience in a food manufacturing facility preferred. Strong electrical troubleshooting and controls experience desired or ability to acquire within a reasonable time frame.
Skills: Mechanical repair, general welding, electrical troubleshooting, PLC troubleshooting, ability to use hand tools, hand-held power tools, and basic computer skills.
Must have the ability to work alone and in close cooperation with production personnel. Capable of working through complex problems alone or with others to provide logical solutions.
Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Additional information can be found at: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov).
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
Recruiter
Posting Type: DNI
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